Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:44:04 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: sysutils/hal Message-ID: <1187991844.79535.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <46CF41BD.90205@pcbsd.com> References: <46CDF660.1020203@pcbsd.com> <1187905573.22397.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <46CF41BD.90205@pcbsd.com>
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--=-f5xEOG13uRzVE3ErXQlL Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 13:38 -0700, Kris Moore wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 14:04 -0700, Kris Moore wrote: > >> Hi there! > >> > >> Is there any updates to the HAL ports in the works right now? I notice= d > >> that the version we are using is still 0.5.8.2 and they have 0.5.9 now > >> available instead. > >> > >> http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/dist/ > >> > >> Let me know whats going on, and if nobody has done this, I may fix up > >> the port here and submit it back to you guys for inclusion. > >=20 > > There is only one pending update in my CVS tree. I have not started th= e > > work to merge 0.5.9 since it will not be trivial, and as far as I know, > > there is still no official PolicyKit release. I had planned to start > > looking at updating HAL for GNOME 2.22. It really isn't a big deal to > > have the version of HAL we have now. It's not like upgrading to 0.5.9 > > will bring any real FreeBSD improvements. > >=20 > > However, if you have interest in additional porting to the FreeBSD > > backend, let me know. There is a need to develop a cpufreq addon that > > ties into powerd. > >=20 > > Joe > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------= - > >=20 > > !DSPAM:1,46ce06eb20761375490816! >=20 >=20 > Thanks for getting back to me on this. I guess I was just curious if the > 0.5.9 update would fix some of the various bugs our users have been > reporting, and add fuse-fs support for NTFS mounting. Right now it seems > to work fairly well, but in some weird cases crashes the system or > ignores FAT32 partitions when it shouldn't. I haven't heard of any bug reports, and those I have heard of, I replied. No one got back to me on testing fuse-ntfs. Reporting bugs to you guys does no good unless you're going to give freebsd-gnome patches for HAL. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-f5xEOG13uRzVE3ErXQlL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGz1Ejb2iPiv4Uz4cRAqsYAJ4992twF4F56BSXCJwsp1JrSyb83QCeP8wu 1HaRz1c7WPyHSI7gCuuuX1k= =iM5Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-f5xEOG13uRzVE3ErXQlL--
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